U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon’s decision Monday means that same-sex marriage is now against the law in fewer than one in four states. Nebraska state officials immediately appealed the ruling…
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a state law barring sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park is unconstitutional. – An appeals court in…
Earlier this month, Judge George O’Toole, along with the prosecution and defense teams, settled on a pool of 70 jury prospects after questioning 256 people over three weeks. Before the…
The trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can stay in Massachusetts, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
NEW YORK — In a surprising about-face, a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators against the New York City Police Department over mass…
New allegations in a high-profile death penalty case may help Linda Carty, a 56-year-old British grandmother who has been on death row in Texas since 2002, get the appeal she…
BOSTON — A three-judge federal appeals panel on Thursday sharply questioned lawyers in the marathon bombing case, challenging assumptions about the ability of prospective jurors to be impartial as the…
Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, members of the so-called “Bali Nine,” were sentenced to death in 2006 and after several failed legal appeals and two denials of clemency, their execution…
A federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to hold a hearing on a bid by lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to move his trial outside Massachusetts. The…
Successive appeals have failed to have their sentences commuted, and both are on a list of inmates scheduled to die by firing squad. Application accepted On Friday, their Indonesian lawyer…
A federal appeals court has approved former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s request to remain free while he appeals his corruption convictions. – Federal prosecutors had opposed McDonnell’s request to remain…